Music Magazine cover discs

[Bryn]

This Month's Ravel: DeC (EFC, BBCSSO, Runnicles) is likely to find detractors among the anti-wide-dynamic range brigade. The recording captures this performance from the pin-drop pianissimo to full blast with no clear signs of limiting. Well worth hearing this performance captured so well. I remember it well. It was a stotter.

[cloughie]

This Month's Ravel: DeC (EFC, BBCSSO, Runnicles) is likely to find detractors among the anti-wide-dynamic range brigade. The recording captures this performance from the pin-drop pianissimo to full blast with no clear signs of limiting. Well worth hearing this performance captured so well. I remember it well. It was a stotter.

Proms 2011?

[Bryn]

Proms 2011?

Indeed. So only available at a maximum audio quality of 192 kbps mp3 via the early version of the iPlayer until now. Except in the RAH that night, of course.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Which work are we talking about? I'm guessing Bolero, and if so it sounds like a big improvement on a very early BBC MM issue of this. The dynamic range of that one was feeble, to say the least.

[Bryn]

Which work are we talking about? I'm guessing Bolero, and if so it sounds like a big improvement on a very early BBC MM issue of this. The dynamic range of that one was feeble, to say the least.

No, DeC, i.e. Daphnis et Chloe.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

No, DeC, i.e. Daphnis et Chloe.

Ah, thanks.

[BBMmk2]

I heard mine yesterday and thought what a very good wide ranging recording of a live event too.

[MickyD]

This Month's Ravel: DeC (EFC, BBCSSO, Runnicles) is likely to find detractors among the anti-wide-dynamic range brigade. The recording captures this performance from the pin-drop pianissimo to full blast with no clear signs of limiting. Well worth hearing this performance captured so well. I remember it well. It was a stotter.

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a "stotter"?

[Bryn]

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a "stotter"?

Bearing in mind the source of the recording, I though it apposite, https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=STOTTER .

[HighlandDougie]

Bearing in mind the source of the recording, I though it apposite, https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=STOTTER .

And pronounced with a long 'O', as in, "stoat". Pronouncing it like, "totter", would bring looks of incomprehension on Argyle Street.

[visualnickmos]

And pronounced with a long 'O', as in, "stoat". Pronouncing it like, "totter", would bring looks of incomprehension on Argyle Street.

Unless coming out of the wonderful Edwardian pub opposite the tube station exit !

[MickyD]

Bearing in mind the source of the recording, I though it apposite, https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=STOTTER .

Thank you Bryn, not surprisingly I couldn't find it anywhere in usual dictionaries!

[Bryn]

Thank you Bryn, not surprisingly I couldn't find it anywhere in usual dictionaries!

Often used by a certain Knight of the Realm now struck with Parkinson's who also gave Parkinson some great interviews. As with much vernacular, it does have varying usage. I intended that of "something outstanding", not that of a drunk trying to acts sober and failing.